Barry was at a hearing for the University of the
District of Columbia, and he was telling them that they had to
work harder to turn D.C. residents into nurses and teachers.
"In fact, it's so bad, that if you go to the
hospital now, you find a number of immigrants who are nurses,
particularly from the Philippines," Barry said. "And
` -- and so that we don't have to be scrounging
around... having to hire people from somewhere else.

Barry made his comment just three weeks after making other
outrageous comments about Asian immigrants.

"We've got to do something about these Asians coming in and
opening up businesses and dirty shops, Barry said
in the first week of April, "They ought to go. I’m
going to say that right now. But we need African-American
businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.”

He tried to clarify by saying that he wasn't condemning a
group of people, but that he was worried that these Asian
business people were disconnected from the community and that
they would, "exploit people in Ward 8."

As D.C. Mayor, Barry became infamous in the 1990s for being
filmed doing crack with a prostitute.